Happy Presidents' Day, especially you, Mr. Lincoln

C-SPAN, riding the hot, hip bandwagon that is Presidents' Day (a holiday that all the cool kids in television's coveted 18 to 34-year-old demographic are digging), today released the results of their "2009 Historian Presidential Leadership Survey." Never heard of it? Neither had I. Then again, I couldn't tell you what station C-SPAN is on my cable, either. 

Regardless, the results of the survey, in which a group of important American historians ranked the nation's 42 completed administrations on 10 different topics, were unleashed like a screaming banshee, exactly as you'd expect from a wild child like C-SPAN (if you don't get it, I'm trying to imply that C-SPAN is dull and does little to make itself, and politics in general, interesting to young people . . . I know, I'm clever). Not shockingly, Mr. Abraham Lincoln was the belle of the ball, scoring the highest point total overall. In a shocking twist, however, George Washington usurped second place from previous number two, FDR. Snap!

Oh, and our most recent failure, George W.? He came in at number 36 overall. Though he scored in the middle of the pack when it came to topics like "Vision" and "Crisis Leadership," he was second to last when it came to "International Relations." William Henry Harrision and his 32 days in office took last place in that category. Man, how pathetic must you feel when the only person you beat in a category never even held office long enough to ATTEMPT to create such relationships?

You can read the entire list over here at C-SPAN's website.